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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham Publisher Comments Until two million years ago, our ancestors were apelike beings the size of chimpanzees. Then Homo erectus was born and we became human. What caused this extraordinary transformation? In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter Publisher Comments Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Athenian Agora #32: The Athenian Agora, Volume XXXII: Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports by John W. Hayes Publisher Comments Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery (terra sigillata) found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table wares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, were... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price: $144.75 New - Hardcover
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The Oxford Companion to Archaeology by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave paintings at Lascaux.... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shire Archaeology #78: Medieval Masons by Malcolm Hislop Publisher Comments Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan Staff Pick In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change ... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Anasazi America : 17 Centuries on the Road From Center Place (00 Edition) by David E. Stuart Publisher Comments Describes the rise and 12th century demise of New Mexico's Chaco Anasazi--uncontrolled growth and separation into "haves" and "have nots" were their undoing. Modern industrial society has much to learn from this compelling saga of failure, adjustment... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (00 Edition) by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments This Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise explores patterns and symbols in the disciplines of mathematics, art, and musical... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Ian (edt) Lilley Publisher Comments This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands.... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $43.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking (American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) by Frederick H Smith Publisher Comments Frederick Smith identifies key themes associated with alcohol production, distribution, and consumption. He discusses industrial and home production of alcoholic beverages and both public and clandestine drinking. He defines the contexts in which... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage by William L Rathje Publisher Comments It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Quest for the Lost Roman Legions: Discovering the Varus Battlefield by Tony Clunn Publisher Comments In 9 A.D., the 17th, 18th, and 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hat Childress Publisher Comments Popular Lost Cities author David Childress opens the door to the amazing world of ancient technology, from the computers of ancient world to the "flying machines of the gods." Technology of the Gods explores the technology that was allegedly used in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory by Adrian Praetzellis Publisher Comments A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual about it -- except that it was found on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew find themselves in a tangled web of competing interests... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony Publisher Comments Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Cotsen Monograph #66: Gallinazo: An Early Cultural Tradition on the Peruvian North Coast by Jean-francois (edt) Millaire Publisher Comments Over the last decades, considerable effort has been directed towards the study of early complex societies of northern Peru, and in recent years archaeologists have expressed a strong interest in the art and archaeology of the Moche, Lambayeque and Chimu... (read more) Your price: $54.95 New - Trade Paper
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Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey by Bruce S Feiler Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Timesbestseller, timed as a companion to the Fall 2005 PBS series based on Walking the Bible. In 2004, Bruce Feiler reprised the journey through the Holy Land that led to his breakthrough bestseller... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Small Things Forgotten Rev Edition by James Deetz Publisher Comments History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cotsen Monograph #66: Gallinazo: An Early Cultural Tradition on the Peruvian North Coast by Jean-francois (edt) Millaire Publisher Comments Over the last decades, considerable effort has been directed towards the study of early complex societies of northern Peru, and in recent years archaeologists have expressed a strong interest in the art and archaeology of the Moche, Lambayeque and Chimu... (read more) Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology by Ian Hodder Publisher Comments Ian Hodder's controversial new book focuses on meaning in archaeology, arguing that the interpretation of meaning needs to be closely integrated with adaptive, economic and social factors when we are seeking to explain the behaviour of past societies... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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